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...raging debates over PC and multiculturalism have placed a certain stigma against those who would deem others "sexist," but Harvard's nine all-made final clubs are worse than sexist. They're misogynist. They are an instrument of control, a self-segregating space where men can keep women out or bus them in whenever they want...
...love my instrument," says the Adams House senior. "I just have to learn how to play...
That oldies echo in your ears is the result of a high-tech technique, digital sampling, that is turning pop music on its ear. Besides creating some unexpected new sounds, sampling is raising serious legal and ethical issues. "We're talking here about the ultimate instrument," says Mike Edwards, founder and lead singer of the British neopsychedelic group Jesus Jones. "I think that sampling's effect on music cannot be calculated...
...born producer Michael Cretu sampled Gregorian chants, juxtaposed them with whispered verses from the Marquis de Sade, and set them to a metronomic beat. Whether such sampling is artistry "depends on how you use it," says Cretu. "If you are a really creative person, you use it as an instrument, you participate. I'm sure if Richard Wagner were alive today he would have the biggest sampler in the world...
Judging by these efforts, says Alan Kay, a techie visionary whose design work led to the Macintosh's easy-to-use screen display, "the computer revolution hasn't happened yet." Kay maintains that the computer is not a tool or an instrument but a medium, and he cites communications guru Marshall McLuhen's dictum that all new forms of media take their initial content from what preceded them. "Everything that we do on a computer is a simulation," says Kay. "Right now, we're still simulating paper...